medicine at King’s College Hospital (1879, London); Bachelor of Medicine degree from Cambridge University (1885); studies photography while at Cambridge
1869 – family returns to England
1883 – joins Photographic Society of Great Britain
1885 – founds Camera Club; lectures at Camera Club and Royal Photographic Society
1886 – retires as doctor to pursue photography; publishes Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, co-authored with Thomas F. Goodall
1887 – discovers photographer Alfred Stieglitz while judging amateur photographer contest
1888 – publishes Pictures of East Anglian Life
1889 – publishes Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art
1890 – publishes Wild Life on a Tidal Water and The Death of Naturalistic Photography, a pamphlet declaring photography a mechanical process rather than an art
1893 – publishes On English Lagoons
1895 – publishes Marsh Leaves; awarded the Royal Photographic Society’s Progress Medal
Cuba and the USA prior to 1869
Emerson, Peter Henry. Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art (1889). New York Arno Press, 1974
Taylor, John. The Old Order and the new: P.H. Emerson and Photography, 1885-1895. Munich and New York: Prestel, 2006